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<h1>Announcing Grid Engine 6.1 Binaries<br>
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Regensburg, Germany -- May 3, 2007
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Grid Engine 6.1 courtesy binaries are now ready for download.
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The courtesy binaries are available at<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><a
 href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/downloads/61/download.html">http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/downloads/61/download.html</a><br>
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<h3>New functionality delivered with GE 6.1:<br>
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  <li>Resource Quotas allow to limit the maximum number of running jobs
per
user, user group, projects on arbitrary resources like queues, hosts,
memory, software licenses. A firewall-like rule syntax allows an
unprecedented flexibility in defining Grid Engine Resource Quotas (RQ).
The man pages qquota(1), sge_resource_quota(5) and qconf(1) describe
the new functionality. </li>
  <li>the complex string attributes (CSTRING, STRING, RESTRING, HOST)
has been
enhanced to allow regular boolean expressions for wildcards or
patterns. The
new syntax is defined in the sge_types(1) man page and examples can be
found
in complex(5). </li>
  <li>the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH is no longer set for
Solaris and Linux
by the Grid Engine settings.[c]sh file. Instead the dynamic library
path is determined
at runtime. </li>
  <li>new switch "-wd" for qsub, qalter, qsh, qrsh and qmon to specify
the
job working
directory. </li>
  <li>new switch "-xml" for qhost to print output in XML format</li>
  <li>MySQL support for the Grid Engine Accounting and Reporting
Console
(ARCo)</li>
  <li>support for Apple Mac OS X on the x86 platform </li>
  <li>support for Linux on Itanium (IA64)</li>
  <li>native HP-UX 11.x 64-bit binary support<br></li>
  <li>Solaris 10 DTrace script supports monitoring and helps to do a
bottleneck analysis </li>
  <li>with the help of our community members job online usage is now
supported for Apple Mac OS X, IBM AIX and HP HP-UX </li>
  <li>various qmon usability improvements</li>
  <li><a href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/servlets/BrowseList?list=dev&by=thread&from=4889">Tight SGE-SSH integration</a> (not part of courtesy binaries)</li>
  <li>support for FreeBSD at source code level</li>
  <li>built-in support to collect load and memory usage for AIX 5.x with
perfstat library (not part of courtesy binaries)</li>
  <li>full DRMAA 1.0 support for the C and Java language bindings</li>
  <li>for developers an early access to a Java API (JGDI) is part of
the courtesy binary
distribution</li>
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The corresponding source code tags in the "gridengine" and "arco"
project CVS repositories have the name<br>
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<div style="margin-left: 40px;"><span style="font-weight: bold;">V61_TAG</span><br>
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A snapshot of the sources is available at the <a
 href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/servlets/ProjectDownloadList">Documents
&amp; files</a> page<br>
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<a
 href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/files/documents/7/136/sge-V61_TAG-src.tar.gz">sge-V61_TAG-src.tar.gz</a><br>
<a
 href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/files/documents/7/135/arco-V61_TAG-src.tar.gz">arco-V61_TAG-src.tar.gz</a>
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A list of fixed problems since GE 6.1beta is available at<br>
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<a
 href="http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/61patches.txt">http://gridengine.sunsource.net/project/gridengine/61patches.txt</a><br>
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